CNN Stealth Edits Article on Dearborn Plot From ‘Islamophobia’ Theme to ‘Terrorists Caught’

CNN really, really hates the Trump FBI, so when it announced that it had arrested terrorists plotting a terrorist attack in Dearborn, MI, it ran with an article that all but said the plot was fake and concocted to discredit Islam. 

The original archived link vs the updated piece:https://t.co/3e89jPv8mmhttps://t.co/rnfZZpuj2f

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) November 3, 2025

Earlier today, CNN cast doubt on the ISIS attack being planned by residents of Dearborn, Michigan, framing it as “Islamophobia.”

Later, the DOJ released a 70-page criminal complaint revealing that Dearborn residents Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud possessed multiple assault rifles, over 1,000 rounds of ammunition, and detailed plans to carry out an attack on behalf of ISIS.

Following that development, CNN stealth-edited its article, effectively deleting it by transforming it into a piece about the DOJ complaint — not about “Islamophobia.”

When new details emerged in a criminal complaint against the plotters, CNN memory-holed the original piece and replaced it with one that merely detailed the accusations. 

Here’s some of the spin from the first article:

Shortly after, FBI Director Kash Patel boasted on X the agency had “thwarted a potential terrorist attack” and arrested “multiple” people in Dearborn “allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend.”

Considered to be the heart of Arab America, Dearborn is home to the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States and has frequently faced Islamophobic and hateful remarks. Abdullah Hammoud, the son of Lebanese immigrants, became the first Arab American mayor of Dearborn when he was elected in 2021.

Members of the community, including neighbors and attorneys for the people taken into custody, say they are skeptical of the allegations.

One of these neighbors is Laraib Irfan, who says his Dearborn community is a close-knit, peaceful place where everyone looks out for each other like family. … 

Patel’s initial X post applauded the FBI for “crushing our mission to defend the homeland,” yet he gave no explanation or evidence to support claims of a foiled terrorist plot.

“More details to come,” he wrote — but so far, none has been alleged.

The FBI has not released any additional information, offering no clarity on when, where or how the alleged plot was meant to unfold.

“It’s curious to me,” Colin Clarke, a domestic terrorism and international security expert, told CNN. “What it makes me think is that the plot wasn’t maybe as mature as they led people to believe.” … 

“An allegation like this is dangerous to this community,” Makled said. “So when you have the national director of the FBI putting out a statement that there was a thwarted terrorist attack and then the news covers the raids of homes in the city of Dearborn, immediately the backlash on the internet is homegrown terrorist cell.”

Footage of the raid posted on Facebook sparked bigoted comments: “A real shocker that they reside in Dearborn,” one person wrote. “Well, Dearborn does have a major Islamic population who aren’t exactly friendly to anyone else,” said another. Some accused the people in the home of being “sleeper cells.”

Although Dearborn’s large Arab population, which makes up nearly half the city, makes it an easy target for Islamophobic, racist comments, the city has been ranked the second-safest large city in Michigan, according to the FBI’s 2024 annual crime report. … 

A neighbor, who asked to only be identified as “Ahmed,” said the people who lived in the home were kind, and he was not convinced the raid was based on credible suspicion.

“You never hear anything from them, they are perfect, smiling, and I do not believe anything happened (from them), they are very good people,” he said.

When asked about the FBI’s claim they stopped a terrorist plot, Ahmed interrupts and rejects the possibility completely: “No, no, no, no,” he says. “I don’t think so.”

Another neighbor, Kathy Sisson, also speaks highly of her community; she says she’s disabled and her neighbors, who are from Brazil, Pakistan and Iraq, are constantly checking on her to make sure she’s OK.

A person in the home where the FBI activity took place who did not want to share their name told CNN the people taken into custody “were just kids” and the situation was “being blown out of proportion and shouldn’t have happened.”

It goes on and on about how Islamophobia is out of control, everybody is so nice, and Dearborn is the greatest place on earth. The charges, whatever they are, are overblown, and how Dearborn is the subject of unjust hate because of slanders against Muslims. 

Islamists gather in Dearborn, Michigan for a pro-terrorism rally chanting:

“Death to America!”

54% of residents in the city are Muslim with the city being dubbed the ‘Jihadi Capital of America.’

pic.twitter.com/NGn8PqYgg9

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 8, 2024

Dearborn, you may recall, is the city where the mayor screamed at a citizen for objecting to having a street named after a terror supporter. 

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud to a resident: “You do not belong in this city, Islamophobe! Get out!”

The resident opposed naming a street, in Dearborn, after pro-jihad Osama Siblani pic.twitter.com/hGTuTD4FFI

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 16, 2025

So, how did the replacement story frame things? Well, let’s just say that it doesn’t quite match the memory-holed one in the least. It even omits quotes from the lawyers that appeared in the first story, and replaces them with  the equivalent of “no comment.” 

Dearborn, Michigan — Two men face federal charges for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired Halloween attack in the US – possibly on the scale of the 2015 Paris terror attacks that killed at least 130 people, authorities say.

An FBI raid on Halloween morning stunned neighbors in Dearborn, the second-safest city in Michigan and home to the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the US.

Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud face charges of “Receiving and transferring, and attempting and conspiring to transfer, firearms and ammunition knowing and having reasonable cause to believe that the firearms and ammunition would be used to commit a Federal crime of terrorism,” according to a criminal complaint.

“Our newly unsealed complaint reveals a major ISIS-linked terror plot,” US Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X.

“According to the complaint, subjects had multiple AR-15 rifles, tactical gear, and a detailed plan to carry out an attack on American soil,” she said, thanking officials for averting an attack “before innocent lives were lost.”

Agents seized two vests that can hold ammunition magazines from a storage unit rented by Mohmed Ali, according to a criminal complaint. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

If convicted, Ali and Mahmoud could face up to 15 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine, a spokesperson for the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan said.

Mahmoud’s attorney, William “Bill” Swor, told CNN his client and Ali are both 20 years old. He declined to provide additional details.

This wasn’t an update on a breaking story; what they did was completely memory-hole their initial framing and replace it with a “just the facts” approach, as if they hadn’t essentially slandered the FBI. 

It may be that not every Muslim in Dearborn is an Islamist radical; but it is also true that Dearborn is a hotbed of Islamist radicals who quite openly say that they want to Islamize America. 

Yes, this is the USA! Dearborn, MI,
now Muslim-majority, leaves non-Muslims displaced.

Arabic signs, mosque conversions, school bullying, economic pressures, and biased leadership make locals feel aliens in their own country. pic.twitter.com/DpDQC5y985

— Islam Invasion 🚨 (@IslamInvasion) September 17, 2025

CNN’s framing of Dearborn is all about how peaceful it is, without mentioning the fact that it is filled with an awful lot of anti-American Islamists. Which, one would think, is highly relevant to the subject of a story where two people who have sworn allegiance to ISIS were plotting a terrorist attack in a city adjacent to Dearborn. 

Dearborn Michigan Chief of Police speaks in Arab “Hamdullah. Hamdullah,” All praise is due to Allah

He proudly talks of replacing the American Dearborn police force with Arabs. The police force went from 3% Arabs to now 45% Arabs/ Muslims

This is what being conquered looks like pic.twitter.com/orp6sEcqIs

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 28, 2025

The obsession with Islamophobia is based on an entirely concocted narrative. 70% of all religiously-motivated hate crimes are directed at Jews, who make up about 2% of the population in America. Muslims, on the other hand, are the victims of 10%. 

Make of that what you will. 

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